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SynthesisAcupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society2009

The Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration: individual patient data meta-analysis of chronic pain trials.

Andrew J Vickers, Alexandra C Maschino

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Synthesis in Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Andrew J VickersDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 307 E63rd St, New York, NY 10065, USA. vickersa@mskcc.org
Alexandra C Maschino

Funding

Acupuncture Trialists' Collaboration: meta-analysis of chronic pain trialsR21AT004189 · NCCIH · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI VICKERS, ANDREW J · 2008 to 2010
$604k
NCCIH NIH HHS R21 AT004189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Evidence-Based MedicineAcupuncture AnalgesiaAcupuncture PointsBiasCooperative BehaviorHumansLow Back PainPain MeasurementRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicReproducibility of ResultsResearch DesignTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID19734384
PMCPMC2841393

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Registered trials

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